BenD- Back in 1966, at the dawn of computing, when yours truly was a junior in high school, I had a teacher order me to write 1,000 times "I will not disturb others by talking in class"
I asked "May it be typed?" He said yes. <grin> I had recntly stumbled on the "mainframe" at San Francisco State University, taking a shortcut through the Admin building to the library to avoid the rain. Used the college library to do research for my high school papers. The computer operator latched onto me like a Sith to an apprentice <g>, sent me to the bookstore for a Fortran II book, (note: not even Fortran IV, only II <g>), began giving me time on the machine - an IBM 1620 with first-gen 1311 hard disks. Console typewriter, no directly-attached printer. You had to produce punch cards, then take them to an IBM 408 Accounting Machine to print. There were "spaghetti wires" on a plugboard in the 408 to map input columns to output columns, do elementary printer programming. I ran a simple loop in FORTRAN to print the required lines (numbered, of course). Then, in English class, good ol' Mr. Heinig boomed "Mr. Braver, have you completed your assignment?" I said "yes, sir" and placed the fan-feed printout on his desk, walked back to my seat. "Mr. Braver. Did YOU do this?" "Yes, sir." "Can you substantiate this?" "Yes, sir." Produced source card deck and note from computer operator that I had indeed done it. Class was trying not to laugh out loud that I had put one over on the dreaded Mr. H. After class, he commended me for my ingenuity, and that it had probably taken me far longer than simply writing it. I ended up getting an A in his class. And made a friend. Behind the bluster, he was a hell of a good guy. -Ben At 03:01 PM 3/7/03 -0500, you wrote: >definition of QED: > >"Because I speak Latin, you uneducated buffoon." > >:-) > >At Macalester, there was a Question of the Week that a math prof (Stan >Wagon) used to pay $1 for correct answers to. You had to have the correct >answer and your reasoning. He once posed what was supposed to be a >theoretical excercise in combinatorics. I handed in my answer with a code >listing and the note "Takes about 14 hours to run." Of course, only about >15 minutes of work to write the program and let it run overnight and through >lunch.... > >-- Ben Doom > Programmer & General Lackey > Moonbow Software, Inc > >: -----Original Message----- >: From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:53 PM >: To: CF-Community >: Subject: RE: Bad Joke Friday! >: >: >: Surprised they didn't have one for QOD :) >: >: -Gel >: >: >: -----Original Message----- >: From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: >: Warning: The amount of humor the reader discovers in this document is >: directly proportional to the presence of nerd with the reader, measured >: in percent. >: >: Definitions of Terms Commonly Used in Higher Math >: >: PROOF OMITTED: Trust me, It's true. >: >: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
